Date: 21 Oct 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: subdirectories (was: ANNOUNCE: Grep 2.1 uploaded)
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From: falk AT gmx DOT de (Falk Friedrich)
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(eyal DOT ben-david AT aks DOT com) wrote:
>Apropos grep,  I didn't find an option for 'grepping' also in
>subdirectories.
>Do I have to specify the dirs in the command line ?
>Is there any tool that does it  (with or without grep) ?
Use gnu find  btw.  find(1) and xargs(1)

Example:
find . -type f -name "*.txt" |xargs grep -Ei "anything" |less

Ciao, Falk